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Most poetry prizes consist of money (tons!) or publication (prestigious!), but the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s Stem Cell Awareness Day poetry contest one-ups all those other ungernerous contests: the...

High school kids recite Stein's "Patriarchal Poetry."

Paddy Hill, the man wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, was released in 1991 after 16 years in prison. Today, he seeks a different kind of justice. A...

Composer Kate Sopher used text from Christian Bök’s Eunoia in a piece of “classical” music performed this May at Carnegie Hall, and which is now streaming on Carnegie’s website. Sopher writes: The...

“Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed / Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers / To stay home that day / Why did Sharon...

Now we know what Ted Hughes was doing the weekend before Syliva Plath's suicide—but should we? According to critic Al Alvarez, the poem is  "very strong stuff, but it ain't...

With so many "best of" anthologies out there, it's hard to distinguish the mediocre from the superior. That's why the folks at Jacket Copy literary blog have sorted through the...

The publication of a previously unseen Ted Hughes poem about the suicide of Sylvia Plath is generating quite a bit of hubbub. Critic Robert McCrum ruminates on the significance of...

The Song of Lunch, Christopher Reid's narrative poem about a noontime rendezvous between a publisher/poet and his old flame at an Italian restaurant in Soho, was translated into a 50-minute...

Meaning A Cloud by J.W. Marshall chronicles the poet's journey from patient to caregiver. The three-part collection travels from the neighborhood where he was hit by a car to the...